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daily Papers. A very general opinion prevailed among those who had devoted their attention to the means of diffusing knowledge through the country, that much good might be done' by weekly publications, of which the matter commonly found in newspapers might occupy only a small and subordinate portion. He was cou fident that weekly publications, of which the greater portion might be devoted to useful subjects connected with science or art, and a small portion to the ordinary news of the day, would be the means of diffusing information among classes to whom, in consequence Of the high duties on newspapers, it was now for the most part inaccessible. Three or four pages of such publications might contain the remarkable intelligeuce of the day, and the rest might be devoted to scientific subjects, for which he was happy to say, the appetite was daily increasing, even among the limn blest classes. He would take this opportunity of saying, that it was only the present state of the Session, and the absence of the Law Officers of the Crown, which prevented him from bringing a very important subject under the consideration of the House—he alluded to the state of the Law of Libel. It would be in the recollection of the House, that in the Ses siert of the year 1816 he brought forward a motion on that sub ject, and that he had been allowed to bring in a Bill, which was read a first time, and then dropped in consequence of the advanced period Of the Session. He brought it forward in several subsequent Sessions, but met with little encouragement from the House. The object of the measure was, to remedy that evil in the law of libel which further experience bad convinced him to he one of a very serious nature, and which some cases, which had recently occurred, bail placed in so striking a point of view, that it was now universally felt to be one of the greatest opprobriums of our law. The evil to which he allotted was, that, however true a statement might be, a person who ventured to publish it was liable to prosecution by indictment. In an action, the truth of the statement might be justifi e d; and in the proceeding ' by criminal information, the Courts required that the party applying for it should deny the truth of the allegations by affidavit; but a •person might he indicted and punished for publishing a true statement, precisely in the same manner as if the statement had been, in letter and spirit, absolutely false. The coniequenCe of this state of the law was, that, if one published' of another that he had been convicted of felony, he might be prosecuted and convicted for such a pub lication, though he had the record of the prosecutor's con viction for felony in his pocket.—(Hear, hear.)—This very ease hail actoally occurred in a recent trial. His (Mr. brougham's) client had bean indicted and convicted of libel far imputing fe lony to the prosecutor, though be (Mr. B.) had in his hands an attested copy of the prosecutor's conviction for felony, which the law precluded him from producing in evidence. Of course, the sentence of the Court would be very different, in such a case, from that which would be passed under ordinary circumstances; but even as the pOint of considering the matter in mitigation of pu nishment, he was sorry to say that there were conflicting decisions, /Lod it was doubted whether the same punishment should not be meted out to the man who published truly of another that he bad been convicted of felony, as to him who had falsely made a similar allegation. And the law, as it stood at present, was consistent enough in this respect, fur the gist of an indictment for libel was the tendency to a breach of the King's peace, and that was as touch endangered in time one case as in the other. U n der these circum stances it Waft his intention to bring the subject of the law of libel once more under the consideration of the House, unless the Right Hon Gentieuman opposite (Mr. Peel) would become foster4ather to the measure, as he bad done in the case of the County Courts' Bill, cod, to use a classical expression, educate and take it upliim self. If the Right Honourable Gentleman would take that course, he (Mr. IL) would recommend to his attention time de. tails of the Bill which be had formerly brought in. The prin ciple of tout Bill was, to allow time defendant, in all cases, criminal as well as civil, to give evidence, after due notice to the opposite party of the nature of that evidence, of time truth of the matters stated in the alleged libel. The evidence so given was iu no case to be taken as conclusive, but merely to go to the Jury as one of the circumstances on which it was their province to exercise their jinigtnent, anti to come to a just decision. Mr. Secretary PEEL said, he was not prepared at present to give any opinion on a subject of so much importance as that, to which the Hon, and Learned Member had alluded. If he should hereafter feel himself qualified for the task, and justified in bringing the subject before the House, he would give the Hon. and Learned Member due notice of time course he might in that am deem it his duty to pursue. The Return was then ordered. Mr. HUME, in moving for a Return of the Amount of Revenue derived from tile duty on advertisements from time year 1793, expressed his conviction, that by a reduction of this duty the Revenue accruing from it would lie, materially in creased,---Tile motion was agreed to. Mr. HUME next incived for a Return of the A moun t of Revenue derived front the stomp duty on pamphlets since the year 1811 This was a tax which it war not worth while to continue, since it operated as a check upon literature, and did n ot being in mom than 1,0001. to the Revenue.—The motion was agreed to. Nfr. HUME next moved for a Return of the Altlollllt of Remienue arising from time stamp duties on Policies for Marine, Fire, and Life insurances since 18 18. —Ordered. On the motion of Mr. HUME, Returns of the number of Oftiets in his Majesty's Navy, in the Marines, Royal Engineers and Artillery, who had been dismissed the service without a Court Martial, since, the year 1'793, were ordered to be laid before the Home. Time other Orders of the Day were then postponed, and the ljo nee adjourned. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, WEDNISD4Y, Dec. 18. THlg DUKIC OF BY.AUFOWN M. fiIiAbWRI.I. refOilidOli his Lordship that the affidavits o Ida clients had been filed some time, and that Mr. Wellesley bin not yet tiled I►is in answer to them. Mr. HART said that Mr. Wellesley war ready with his affida. vita, and that he would file them immediately. Mr. SHAOWFLI, wished to know what Mr. Hart meant by hu. mediately. Mr. HART.—To.IIIOITOW ; and I think that when my learned friend '.mss them he will regret that the original aflidav►ts were ever put Avon the tile. The learned counsel trusted that his Lordship wOuLl name some tin►e beyond which no more affidavits should be filed ; u►:d that when a day was named for judgment, his learned friend Mr. Slattwell would not be allowed to defer it, by stating that be wished ,' mak* farther affidavits. The LORD CHANCILIAR 4." 4 W 04 pledge himself to this.— He must, however, see thesea►w ~ahlavita before they were read in Court. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NV/mamma Pp, Dry. J& THE. KING V. NMI This was au indictinent fora nuisance, preferred by the guar dial); of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras, against the defend ant, fur carrying on the trade of a varnish-maker at Maisie, his premises being situated within the distance from the workhouse of that parish prohibited by the local Arts of Parliament. 'Ch. Jury, found the defendant Guilty of a nuisance at com mon law. COURT OR COMMON PLEAS, GUILDHALL, Dtc.- IS. HUTIIVFN V. laltOWN, 'lbis was an tuition brought against the defendant, warden of the Fleet prison, fur permitting , the escape of a prisoner ',aided H a eeldine, who was i,i custody charged in execution on a judg ment which had been obtained by the plaintiff for a stun of 282/. The defendant pleaded that the prisoner had escaped without his knowledge or consent. er r Bo a auQurr stated the caw. It was in May, 1824, that }jas mi ne had been committed to the Fleet prison. He was not, however, confined within the wells of the priloO. It was well known, that the prisoners in the King's 't rac t, .end F l eet t prisons enjoyed the privileges of what was ferried the rules, on payment Of certain fees to the warden, who was, however, answerable to the creditors fur the sate custody of the prisoner ; an d i f be were suffered to ertape, 'would by law be liable for the wh o l e of those debts for which he was confi ned. There was also another privi lege allowed to the prison ers, which was called a " day rul e ," by which they were permitted to go beyond the i r ules preactibed, provided they returned again within the ride w re_ 12 . _s)'elock at night. The Learned Sergeant would prove that llaseldine had been seen beyond the rules several times, sod, on oue partieular occasion, at the Sadler's Wells Theatre he was seen so late as between 11 and 12 o'clock. ft was true that he, on this day, had not o n obtained " day rule," bat he should p rove that te did that aeration r e turn within the robe by 12 o'clock, the tune pre. seribad. )ro ved John Vickery, keeper of the Cold Bath.fielils piton, that on the loth of June, he was at Sadler's Wells Theatre, And ,there saw Ihieeldina, who reotained until the end of the perform• , au ce, between 11 and 12 o'clock. Aolitillitlicanlpeve notice 0 the Warden that Haseldine had been omen at large. The Loan Cniste',Jusucv., in summing up, xemarked, that aloe only question the Jury would have to decide was, *hello . from the evidence they believed the prisoner bail returned within the rules, or not, by 12 o'clock on the night of the loth of June. VaLlic-1--Deinages Is. SOUTH AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Dsc. 11.—The Porter, Callan, arrived this day, sailed from Callon on the 24th of August. By this vessel letters and papers have helm received to the above date. On the 16th of Auglist, the Electoral College of the Province of Lima, assembled in the City of Lima, passed an Act or Decree, which, after recapitulating the reasons which induced the Deputies to agree to the measure, concludes by -appointing Bolivar President of the Republic of Peru fur life, with the power to nomi nate his Successor. The Act is inserted at length in the Peruvena of the 19th of August, which paper describes it to have been pass ed with the loudest acclamations. The Porter has brought 300,000 Dollars on Merchants' account, she likewise has seven passengers on board. By information from Lima it would seem that Bolivar was ex • trendy unpopular, and that serious conspiracies bad been formed against his life, in which several military officers of high rank were implicated. Executions had followed ; and General Correa, one of those in custody, had cut his throat while in prison. The following is an extract of a private letter from Oporto, re ceived yesterday 'OPORTO, OTC. 1, 1826. We were all in great consternation this morning on account of ie news from the frontiers. The Marquis de Chaves has en tered Braganza with 2,000 men, anti there being only 500 re gular troops in the place, they finight and retired to the Castle. Afterwards yuPnees ; every house was robbed, and the female inhabitants insulted ; the carnage was great amongst the troops. The rebel troops bring a strong force of Spanish Guerillas with them. This is all that we know for certain ; but the Marquis's troops are promised three days' pillage, if they reach Oporto; all the province, as far as Amarante, is in favour of the Infante Don Miguel. The Governor of this city, General Stubbs, Is about to proceed to Amarante, with all the disposable force. " EXTRACT OE DISPATCHER. " The notices fron► Braganza, which reached me this day, state, that, up to yesterday, our brave troops, held out in the castle of that town, where they sustained themselves on the flesh of their horses. The valour and patriotism of the brave troops of Colo• nel Valdez, though scarcely amounting to 600 men, have withstood 2,000 refugees. We hope that those brave men will continue to hold out for a few days more, until they are succoured by Generals Mello and Clandino, and then we cal culate, that the traitors will learn the difference between the courage of those who fight for their honour and their duty, and those who have nothing in view but rubbery, perfidy, and dis honour. His Excellency has, besides, just received, from Arna raute, despatches, which inform him, that that important City is in a stide of tranquillity, notwithstanding the false and alarming news which the malcontents spread abroad, that the refugees had spent a night at Villa Real. THE ARMAMENT FOR PORTUGAL, At an early hour yesterday morning - the left wing of the 2d battalion of his Majesty's 3d Regiment of Foot Guards left Port man-street barracks, under the command of Colonel Bowater, for Portsmouth. They were drawn up in Birdcage-walk previous to marching, and quitted the Pork amid numerous spectators.— One division will, it is understood, proceed as far as Croydon, the other to Kingston, where they will remain for the night. The men seemed to be is excellent spirits. The troops chosen are chiefly veterans. The first battalion of the Duke of York's regi ment (theist Regiment of Foot Guards) are ordered to leave Portsmouth barracks on Friday next (to-morrow) at one o'clock. There is a general order given for the cavalry at Knightsbridge to hold themselves in readiness. It is said, that two detachments of the Royal Rorie Guards (blue) will be sent off in the course of this week. Four companies of the Royal Artillery have received orders to prepare for embarkation. One company of the Royal Staff Corps is ordered to proceed to Portsmouth for embarkation. A detachment belonging to the Waggon Train is ordered foi embarkation. The cavalry will be commanded by Colonel Wyndham. The 2d battalion of the 3d Regiment of Guards marched this morning for Portsmouth. The .10th Hussars and the 12th Lancers are marching on Oz- ford, where they are expected to arrive on the 20th instant. . The troops from Portsmouth will he conveyed to Portugal in four line-of-battle ships. Lord Amehue Beauclerk will have the command of the whole naval force. The two regiments at Cork, which hail been destined fur Jamaica, will also sail for Lisbon, and two regiments are expected there front Gibraltar. The ap pointment* and arrangements for the aid to Poitugal have been made, for. the moat, on the suggestions of the Du k e of Wellington. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 12,—The troops about to embark fur Corfu received counter orders this day, and considerable activity prevails in the naval department. The Glocester, 74, Captain Horton, at Sheerness; the Aid vine, 74, Captain Hill; Spartiate, 74, Captain Warren, at Portsmouth; and the Windsor Castle, 80, Captain King, at Plymouth, are ordered to convey the troop to Lisbon. The Wellesley, 74, Captain Falcon, that arrived at Portsmouth on Monday front the South American station, is al , o ordered upon the same service. The lower , deck gnus are to be taken out to make room for the troops. Government having obtained the tonnage required, the notice put 'up at Lloyd's of tenders for transports has been withdrawn The following is an extract of a letter received this morning from Portsmouth, which shows with what activity the war is likely to be prosecuted : " Portsmouth, Dec. 12. " We were thrown into a state of surprise this morning, by orders being received for his Majesty's ships Wellesley, Melville; end Romney, to he put into an immediate state of readiness to receive troops on board, and proceed with them to the Tagus.— The lower-deck guns of the Wellesley and Melville were com• mewed taking out without a moment's delay, and the necessary *twee for sea were put in requisition lbr the three ships. We noderstarul the Guards, 4th, 611, ,and 69t1► Foot, are to embark here; that the first division of the Guards will march in on Sa turday morning for that purpOse The 4th Foot are in this gar rison, the 69th at Newport. Orders are also come for such tran sports as are, or can be now got ready for service, to be sent to Cork with every possible expedition, where troops are waiting ( w hi c h weer originally destined to Corfu and the West Indies) to embark in them, for the Tagus. The public feeling is decidedly in favour of the measures here contemplated—of putting a stop to the faithless machinations of the blesved Ferdinand and his priests upon Portugal. The regret is, that Mr, Canning has so long played with the subject, so notorious as it had become." We understand that Rear Admiral Sir GEORGE EYRE has, front the state of his health, declined the command of the expedition lifting out for Portugal ; and that Rear Admiral Sir THOMAS HARDY will have the command : for which purpose he will shift 1 j,;;,4 flag from tke Sybille to the Wellesiey. DEPARTURE a the GUARDS for PORTUGAL Yesterday morning the left wing of the second battalion of his Majesty's third regiment of Foot Omani* left London fiw Ports mouth, to embark from thence to Portugal. 4t an early hour in the moruing they assembled in the King's Mews, where their accoutrements, Ike. being inspected, they were ordered to•fo coed to the Bird-cage Walk. On their almost march they were followeml by their wives awl elmilthen, and friends. At half past eight o'clock the companies fell into rat,k in the Bird-cage Walk, Captain Montague acting as the Adjutant. There were at the time many thousand persons assembled, who rent the air with shunts of " Success, Guards; "Success my boys; " " Portugal for ever,". tkc. Tice.men seemed to be in excellent spirits, and to be much pleaded with the nature of time service on which they were to embark ; it seems that those who remain behind, with few exceptions, express deep regret at not having been selected. The troops chosen are chiefly' veterans. At ten o'clock Colonel Bowater, who has the command of the bettalion, gave the word to march, and the soldiers quitted the Park, amid the acclama tion* of the numerous spectators. The detachment writhed out at Buekingham-gate. Its Pimlico the streets were almost impas sable, in consequence of time crowd, who presented laurels to the soldiers as they passed along, and exclaimed, " Bravo, my boys, you are sure of wee' s." Several of the spectators also shook hands with the officers, who appeared highly delighted with the good feeling awl affection displayed tows,* them and the col diem —At Battersea the band quitted the regieasut, and they then proceeded with the d , merry fife and drum." One diyision will,_ it is understood, proceed as far as Croydon, the other to far eft. rtiiinthAtil. IC c rn , PIOA here they will remain for the night. At seven ( !'l_s o is, twelve waggons, with the regimental baggage, started Another battalion, under the command of Col. Co The h fi a rs " Cha w tt l a l tio l l aj o e f h th tl eture r l u mf ing Yo f fk r 's f i l :e le gi n inn ( d t e h s e tin tj a rs ti t o r n e . gi - - mot of Foist On* a ) are ordered to leave Portsmouth bmirracki to ,.merrow at one o'clock. There is a General Order given for at Knightsbridge to h o ld t h emse lves in readiness.— detaclonents of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) t i l t me is Carats said, y that two w i l l h e sent off in the course of this week. Captain Fairfiehi, on the Bird-cage Walk, unluckily lost his wit o pf , medal ; and although he offered a haat:Wine /* Ward t! ) the fiw o i s reati)re it, we th.l nut hear that he succeeded in re covering it, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. (Fro►n the Journal tits (rItIVATE CORAIMPONUBNCE. ) " Manotn, Dry. 3.—The English Minister at our Court ap pears to he in no way satisfied with the explanations given by M. Salmon in a note dated on the 28th, an,lon the 29tlyhe addressed a note to M. Salmon. . " Mr. Lamb, in the first place, proves that arms, finlvarded thence to Extremadura, under pretext of arming the Royalist. volunteers, have been distributed to the Portuguese refugees. His Excellency names the place and the day where and when they were distributed. . . " Mr. Lamb afterwards adds, ' that a report from General St. Juan had been communicated to him, in which that General announces, that when he received the order to deliver up the arms of the refugees to the Portuguese Government, he could not execute it immediately, because the troops which he commands were absent, and that he had to apprehend a movement on the part of the Portuguese refugees, which it was not in his power to repress.' " To this Mr. Lamb replied, that General St. Juan had him self removed his troops, by collecting them at Alcantara, under the pretext of a review ; that he went thither in person, and that he was so well informed of the mover►euts of the Portuguese re fugees, that the rations, which a detachment of 300 men received in passing through Almendral to enter Portugal, were furnished in pursuance of orders of General St. Juan himself, signed at Aleantara. . " 6 It has been thought fit, also, to communicate to me,' con tinues Mr. Lamb, a report of General Longa, in which it is stated that that General had proceeded to the frontiers of Portugal, to watch in person, the movements of the Portuguese.' " To appreciate the justice of this report, it should be compared with the secret correspondence winch has passed between General Longa and the late Intendant of Leon, Pastor. In that correspon dence the true motives of the journey of the General is to be found. It alone explains the real cause of it. " General Quesada, in his report, pretends that it was from motives of humanity, Abet be allowed the Portuguese refugees who were at Exija to be removed to Ayamonie, in order that the greater proximity to Portugal might enable them at a less expense to exchange the Portuguese money which , they bad brought with them, and 'which is not current in Spain. This report, Mr. Lainb remarks, is not better founded than that of General Longa ; fur if General Quesada had in view only the pecuniary interest of the Portuguese refugees, the Spanish Government bad within 'its , power, without displacing the refugees, to exchange their money, without loss either to them or to it. " From the manner in which Mr. Lamb's note terminates, it would appear that he has not received the necessary instructions either for demanding or accepting any thing from our Govern sient. On the other hand, it would also seem, that it is less from London than from Lisbon that this diplomatist has to look to for the direction of his conduct. " The Portuguese Government being informed, on the morning of the 284 of the invasion of the province of Tras-os-Montes, the Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote on the same evening to the Mar quis of Cassa-Floree, our Ambassador at Lisbon, that his functions as Ambassador had terminated, and that as soon as he pleased passports for leaving Portugal would be delivered to him. " This fact is correct—perfectly correct—and as there is no doubt that the Portuguese Government did not take this unex pected step without consulting Sir W. A'Court, it may be pre sinned that its conduct will regulate that of Mr. Lamb, who will doubtless terminate his mission at Madrid in a manner as abrupt as th . at in which our Ambassador's has been closed at Lisbon. " However, our Government, which foresaw the storm, does every thing to allay it, and offers to dismiss the Minister Calomarde, and the three Captains-General mentioned above. " General Longa is at present - about five leagues from Bra game, at the village of Alcanizas, which is situated on our ex treme frontier; and General St. Juan is on the banks of the Caya, in Estremadura. These Generals have each about 2,000 men with them ; and they certainly are not there for the purpose of securing respect to the Spanish territory, which never has been threatened with any invasion by the troops of the Portu guese Regency. " alt. de !Mustier was to have left Madrid on the let, but his departure has not yet taken place*. Mr. Lamb, however, who has not announced his departure, is selling his horses, and prepu rations are making in his hotel, which indicate that he does not expect his residence here to be of lung duration. "The contest at Braganca appears to have been of the inost obstinate description, fur we are assured that the number of killed and wounded on both side* is about SOO men." (Flom Ow fos r tlate4 Tuesday.) A letter from Badajos contains tl►e following statement :---The Governor of liadajoe lately received orders from the Minister of War to transmit 800 muskets to Merida, a place only a few leagues from Portugal. The Governor sent a detachment of 12 men, under the command of a Lieutenant of Artillery, with the muskets. When they arrived close upon the frontier, the Lieu- tenant and his dozen men suddenly found themselves in presence of a Portuguese Colonel,. who was one of the Portuguese refugees that corn. weeks ago entered Spain. The Colonel accosted the Spanish Lieutenant very politely, and summoned him to surrender the 800 muskets. The Lieutenant refused. The Colonel replied that he 41ight give them up without having any thing to fear ; that he would not be blamed by the "Governor of Radar; nor by his Captain• General. The Lieutenant declared to the Portuguese Colonel, that he would only yield the 800 muskets to force. The Colonel then caused the Spanish detachment to he surrounded, and took possession of the muskets. On his return► to Badajoz his superior Officer told the Lieutenant that he ought to have died rather than surrender, and that he should he tried by a Court martial. Proceedings were immediately commenced against him, and are carrying on with the greatest diligence. PARIS STOCK EYCKANGI, MONDAY EVININO, Dec. 12. Five per Cents. 99f. 40c. 25e. 30e. 20c. 40e. ; Three per Cents. 69f. 681. 10e. 40e. 30c. ; Bank Shares, 2,066 f. ; Naples Renter, '74f. ; Cortes Bonds, 10i; Royal Spanish Loan, 52i ; Haytiau Loan, 695. Exchange on London, one month, 25. 4b. ; three months, 26. 30. The Etna* states that he left Madrid on the :oh. CADIZ. (FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.) CADIZ, Nov. 28, 1826.—1 n my last I gave you an account of the dispositions of the French troops hi this neighbourhood. The brigades, which have been recently strengthened by the ar rival of inure recruits from France, have changed quarters. The Brigade of General Sousbieli occupying the Isla, that of General Mouton, Cadiz. . . Major General the Comte de Castellani, who commands at Port St. Mary's, the Light Cavalry, and the Light Infantry, which compose the advanced guard of the Army of Occupation in Spain, is goin g on s ix months' leave of absence to France, from whence General Mouton has just arrived. The departure of General the Comte de Castellani, will be re gretted by all t unpopular as are the French in Spain, he has, by a peculiar urbanity of manner, ensured the good will of the inhabitants of those cities in which he has been quartered. At Port St, Mary's, the residents were not disposed to exchange any civilities with him ou, his arrival, but by perseverance on his part, joined to the Milliners' Of a 'French gentleman, offering a dance to the young ladies every Wednesday, he 'contrived to receive all the respectable inhabitants " then lid," and to secure their best wishes. No English officer from the adjoining garrison of Gibraltar, no Ettglish gentleman travelling through Spain, ever arrives at Port St. Mary's, without receiving the most marked attentions from the Major General, or without partaking of the hospitality of his table. Having been mach opposed to the British in the field, he knows as a soldier how to appreciate their gallantry, and he Manifest' in time of peace a respect thus founded by the most friendly attentions. This distinguished Officer was many years Colonel of the Hussars de 14 Garde Imperial, and is now quite a young man, full of energy and activity. The French brigs and schooners, which have been employed since June in the Sanitary service, have now returned to France. They sailed 4 few days ag o t o diff eren t por t s , as well as the bona frigate, under the &unwind of the Baron de St. Priest, to Rochefort, the latter to bring back troops. The corvette L'Ariepe, with General Montan and suite on board, and about three hundred troops, got on shore on a reef of rocks which run out front Rota, the western-most town at thy witripice of the Bay of Cadiz, fortunately no lives were lost, and prompt megsate4 huipg been taken to prevent the corvette's cap. siding, she floated off the nest chin ; had the weather not been as moderate and tine as in summer, she must have PPP tO pieces—. she struck before the time of hi g h w ater. The rocks are call e d, the Asses' head ! ! brig which was amongst others eent to her 4 , rElirYheae of i r i bowspritf glint,thougll the transom of the Arieme, into the CiAbin, and carried W a y her own figure head es web as her bowsprit, fortunately no one waa in the cabin at the time. All the others, brigs and schooners, as well as the .liellona frigate, got.underweigh to assist the wreck, and all returned to their an chorage on Sunday The Aritye got on shore about 11 o'clock on the ft - kerning of Friday the The ball given hirf ou the 4th of November, the foe of the King of France, by Lieut. General Vicomte Gudon, Commander of the French forces in Andalusia, was attended by only forty six ladies, young and old ; a pretty strong proof that the occu pation of Cadiz is not very palatable to the inhabitants, howsoever exemplary the conduct of the troops may be ; or that the Lieu tenant General has not the art of insinuating himself in the good graces of the " Gaditanas." When the insurrection took place in the province of Algarve, which was no sooner excited than subdued, the Spanish authorities at Ayamonte crossed the Guadiana, and entered Portugal with a band of music, to bail the insurgents, and bring them into Spain. A spirited remonstrance from Don Gonsalvez Vieira, the Por tuguese Cotten' General at Cadiz, to his Excellency the Captain General at Seville, Don V. Quesada, caused the desired effect. The Spanish authorities at Ayamonte have been punished. The gradual decay of this fine country—which, under another system, might yet be one of the most productive in the world, could not be credited by any who have not seen what it once was and what it now is ; its commerce annihilated, manufactures destroyed its inhabitants ;educed to the lowest state of poverty and wretchedness; all these in a nation whose climate is the most delicious, whose soil the most exuberant, whose harbours the most spacious—an awful warning to surrounding Potentates, and a wholesome lesson to all those nations who enjoy the blessings of good government wherewithal to be content. It is much feared that the Guerrero, '74, Commodore La Bora, sent (rein this port last year to the Havannah, has foundered at sea, she was seen by several vessels dismasted and in much distress; the other vessels composing her squadron have returned to the Havannah. Should this melancholy catastrophe have occurred, there remains but one more ship of the line, belonging to Spain— lately so great, so powerful. During the whole time that the Colombian privateers have in fested the coast of Spain, to the almost entire destruction of the coasting trade, not one of them has been captured by any ship of war, although the corvettes, Deseubiesta, Jason, Jainta, and others, have been sent to look after them; but, on the other baud, the Colombians have taken part of the convoy of these Spa nish men-of-war. The number of the Colombians is diminished in this neighbour hoOd ; two vessels, however, which arrived here on the 16th from Galicia, state that they were both boarded by a Colombian ship off Cape St. Vincent, one on the I 1 th, the other on the 18th, from whom they learned that six vessels which sailed from Cadiz had lately been captured by the same Colombian. If the French were to leave Spain, what should prevent the Colombians from blockading Cadiz. The Spaniards, individually, could not exert their local powers, and so weak is the Government, that they could not efficaciously prevent such a blockade, which, however chimerical it may seem, would not be unlikely to occur. The French themselves are heartily tired of the occupation— they say, " nous commis dans nue position en fausse :" with a Constitutional Government ourselves, we arc controlling, by our presence, the free exercise of the people of Spain, for the obtaiu meat of a similar benefit ; and we are moreover, for the same reasons, sustaining Spain in her opposition to tl.e existing order of things in Portugal, which France has openly recognized. By our presence, we strengthen the king against his people, in his determination not to admit of "an intercourse between Old and New Spain. Whilst we French are sending out Consuls to South America, we•are doing duty as sentinels over the prisons of Spain, teeming with prisoners guilty of no greater crime than that of having obeyed their sovereign in swearing to the Constitution. Our troops are employed to aid an arbitrary police, in the ap prehension of individuals, to whoM the nature of their offence is not perhaps for years afterwards communicated, and to sustain the Spanish authorities in the exercise of a power which we col lectively and individually condemn ; and yet, they say, France has not the resolution and the good sense to free herself of this inconsistency, and by withdrawing her troops, afford facilities to the establishment of a wiser system of policy." I send this letter by the steam ship George the Fourth, which we hope, at Cadiz, may become a regular means of coon:outage tion. The celerity of their voyages renders it peculiarly desirable, that the General Steam Navigation Company may meet with such encouragement as to induce them to persevere. Were Cadiz what it once was, and what it might become, this city alone would support such a ship regularly, and, we trust, if there should be a loss in the first instance, that the General Steam Na vigation Company will, notwithstanding, give the undertaking a fair trial of some months, for it is by perseverance only that the benefits of such rapid communications can be thoroughly known and duly appreciated. ADVICES FROM PORTUGAL. The rebels who penetrated into the province of Alentejo, be kug, at least the greatest part of them, to the regiments No. 2, of cavalry, and Nu. 17 of infantry, who bad formerly deserted from the same province. They were positively furnished by the Spanish authorities with arms and every equipment, notwith standing the repeated promises made by the Spanish Government. The deserters who entered Portugal through the province of Tras-os-Montes, belonged to the regiments II and 24, and were beaded by the Marquis de Chaves, bringing, besides, in their train, many individual deserters from other corps, a number of Spanish lancers, and several peasants, Portuguese and Spaniards, armed and embodied in guerillas, which devastate the dwellings and villages through which they pass. Will any respectable wan still doubt that this is the casus . faderis 9 _ _ .The Portuguese Government seems to take all possible means. to crush the rebellion. The corps which have already marched from Lisbon are all commanded by persons of undoubted confi dence. The enthusiasm throughout all classes in Lisbon, and the resolution of maintaining themselves, and preserving for their de scendants the institutions granted by a generous Sovereign, are as strong as can be wished; and the two Houses, composing the General Cortes, have shown great spirit, tempered by an admira ble moderation. The militia have been armed in part, and a number of young men, belonging •to the nobility of the king dom, had armed themselves, and bad already marched against the rebels. The famous circular which the Spanish Government addressed to the Portuguese and other Governments of Europe, pretend ing the expedition to have advanced under specific orders for the disarming of Portuguese deserters, the expulsion from Spain of the Marquis de Chaves, and Viscount de Canellas, &c. &c., which has already appeared in the newspapers, is signed the 27th No vember, namely, the day after the Spanish Government was fully acquainted with the entrance of those deserters into Portugal, and of course, with the impossibility of the 'execution of those orders which they pretended to give, as all the arms belonging to the Portuguese deserters had been previously restored to them, and as the Marquis de ,Chaves had already entered Portugal when the order was issued for his leaving Spain. Never was a greater or more palpable perfidy than this committed by the Govern ment of a civilized nation. Observing the unanimity which prevails in all the sensible part of the Portuguese nation, it appears evident that great arts must have been prac tised, awl much money expended, to sedum the ignorant soldiery, who cannot distinguish betwixt right and wrong, and who, unhappily accustomed to think - themselves entitled to inter fere in the political changes of their country, (all former attempts to that effect having succeeded and never been punished), were led by a tow despicable, low, ambitious courtiers, to raise the stan dard of revolt, and light the fire-brands of civil war, in the coun try of their birth, expecting to be held up as true Royalists, and being perhaps received as liberators by some poor ignorant pea sants on the frontiers, into whom fanatical ideas had bees► inspired, and who thought that liberal institutions were necessarily level led against religion and the King ; but even front those, the sen timents publicly expressed by the first men of the nation, and by the Patriarch himself, and by the Bishops before the assembled Collet, will have the effect of removing their delusion, and open ing their eyes on the subject. THE ARMY. The 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Infantry marched, yesterday, from Chatham, for Windsor, to replace the 636 (Weal Suffolk) Regiment of Foot, which is on its march to Portsmoutt for embarkation. The Depot Companies of the 63d Regiment of Infantry are ordered to march, on the 16th instant, from Windsor to the Tower of London. The Detachment of the Guards, on duty atlel ( " 1, will be re lieved by a detachment of the 63a Regiment of Foot, from Windsor. ----- The following is an extract of a letter brought by p l ace ; the English residents were singled out pro perty destroyed, their families the last Lisbon packet :--" At Braga nze a scen e of a dreadful na ture has also taken by the traitors, their ignomi niously and shamefully treated, amidst the rejoicings of these miscreants. One of them, a woollen house of great respectability, has lost, 25,00Ri. The hull''y was invilted, particularly the females. The merchant is now hi the castle, with other' nnfor ttinates b es i ege d by these renegadoes, anti if these succeed, every one of them, it is expected, will be put to death. It is reported that the refugees have plenty of money, all in French OP." As a proof of returning confidence, local notes are now become again the chief circulating medium in the South of Devonshire ; Bank of England notes and sovereigns having al most wholly disappeared. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. • After the Holidays. Mr. Courtenay—Select Committee on Friendly Societies. Monday, Feb. IL Mr. Huskisson—Consideration of the Laws relating to the Importation , of Foreign Corn PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stock 199 11% 3 per Cent. Red... .... 3 per Cent. Cons. 314 per Cent.: 8 2 %/4 Ditto Red. 82% 3 2)4% 2 4 per Cent. New.... ........ - Ditto, 1826 WA; 9 4 i 8 3 1 21 i Bank Long Ans. 18 India Stock - DAY ATONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock ..................... Old Annuities ..................... New Ditto .. . ........ . ....... Ex. Bills, .. 3pm. Pit Ditto 5OO 3 Prri• Par Ditto Small Ditto Commercial .............••••. Bank for Opening .................. India tbr Account .... ...... . Cons. for Acct. 7S gestivi t 7f • Ditto Bond. 1 i 6 8 pm. par PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent 86 Brazilian Bonds ... .' ..... Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chißan - Bonds 8 per ct. Colombian Bo nds chtto,lB24 34 2 }f, 2 Danish 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto 1828 15 16 14% Gluatunala Mexican Bonds 5O Do. 1825 64 3 S 2 1 2 1 JNDS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 .................. Peruvian Bonds ..................... 30 Portuguese Bonds ........... „ ..... IZrussian, .5 per cent. ............. Ditto, New ........................... Russian, New, p. c. ................ Spanish, 18'21 :19% lit Ix 1823........................ F r ench Renter, 6p. c.••.•" gdf. —c. ---- Exchange............ 60c. 3 per cent. ex div. --r. ----- Exchange............ PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE 0 - CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Awe. is Ail il 15 AS United Mexican Mining Company F73( IS% lit Equitable Loan Bank Com_l9:L_____777----- STOCKS, DEC. 11 St. Patrick bon% (per share)... -• •••• Royal Irish Ditt0........... National Ditto ...................... Patriotic Ditto .................... *— Hibernian Provincial Ditto ................... Royal Irlib Mine ................... I m perial Mine ..................... Mining Co. of Ireland ............ Commercial ButkilT______22_o•••=.:f.:----- L S. Due, Arrived. • GLlerlliey& JCTSeY. • Hambursh .......... V O Holland ............... 1 O Jamaica .............. 0 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon ................. alta ... 0 • M O ....... 1 _ PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock Gov. Stock, 34 per cent. Ditto, New B7 7 4 per Cent. 96 Gov. Deb. 3% per cent Consols, 3 per cent Bl% Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock --- City Deb. 4 per cent. -- Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil 0 O Buenos Ayres O Donaghadee 0 I Dublin 0 1 • France O Gottenburigh HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 69 minutes after Y. Morning 4O minutes after 4. Evening tbt LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 14, 1826. Papers o f M The French e T o t i t t e r s s d e a t Tuesday morning reac hed dated and in Wednesdaythe night wineln:nsdimo rn ing, received, a g y , sati dnbi n i g h t hi express, p l: r t't e: i I : es 1;411 c E o f unt of the opening of the two Chambers on Tu es. day ° , il a e nd the Speech delivered by the c lC on itg in o i f ng Fit a A n t :: * It is not in a Royal Speech, delivered Suc h 3 , that we usually expect to find m on uchiilforo : . t o i c o c n a s r in e o sp respecting the foreign relations of a country ; bu t ,' at this particular ficient to crisis, when a word might be s A indicate the line of policy 1 • F ' ° id ' probably ptulue in conse Peninsula, and of the meas ures about to adopt, the Speech of the French KIN° * 1 t i n ug en t t h o e looked for with be surprised if t certain expressions which We find in 1 gather at an earlier u u e r n e c s e s o v w l f , i the eh this events n 1 n o c e ni in y :hit: s do not, on perusal, excite a still deeper hest int for the next indications of the real intentions of Goe f it tl i tat ned co ia t te ttr o y b . ject4Hi:f.i‘cLAiit:gstTlive, caihlearmdboescsrtioh: respects the to be the consideration of the law as he Forests, Mili tar . ) Jurisdiction, the Liberty of t and to Press , the Organization of Juries , and the punishment) for • bemg engaged in the Slave Trade, says-- " I continue to receive from all foreign Gover nment' the illfr surance of dispositions the most frieMdly anti the m ost in 00' period than usual, which he states ml" to my own sentiments for the rnainteoance of port. . hi , prevent their co nsequences." Trouble, have recently broken out in a part of the Prolate I shall unite my efforts to those of my Billet to put an e nd to $ 1 1• 1 * sent posture of affairs, Had there been no other expression in his 94. t nr y JESTY'S Speech bearing upon the subject of to e I rtainti line of strong hopes that the advocates of a peaceable conduct in the Cabinet of the Thuilleries would P r 7, rail, and that we might reasonably expect the enoi, operation of France to put an end to the aggre ssi°l ; 4 . we should have ante pain upon Portugal ; but we find in subsequent io , graphs of the speech, expressions which c a n root bbeeerneatdisewditnbiotuhtouetxscoitminegsdittsrtuesrt,inatteniteisostn: oarth:sin. nfoewasacatnivditydwoiclikehlwarildl dock-yards issle ufonil cerity of the views of the G O Yelltillelli. Ins ea ki nf finan I cut. regu ations, his MAJESTY SAP''' . 41 fo r of the relief of the people by cerl3ill great roads, our fortresses, and our naval arsenas. And the indigent classes will fi nd abundant Woo". on ou ' ) tile And this declaration of renewed exertions o titsleclos that , ' ' trance, industrious and tr oi l w * .- 'lc- anq , w ill o ut new greatness, and her success in ) , e h e warlik e edlowinedthebpyubltilezesecs;raltst q.r, shed around her less lustre than wou di s pky virtue:, if honour should again oblige her to them."We shall leave our readers to form their °/48. can. " Gxtert.; to Obj °lll elusions from these words, and has . teo before the ordinary period of Speech itself. SPEECH OF THE KING OF FRAN"..a• prepared for MlN—lmportant labours have been _,P r 'r - sll yoo this Session. Certain of your teal, I have not hesitag" t° c ' • the army, and in the o r donnan y ce mr of w m n Y v e w o . fl at u i :C candflt esi* h th e r ey MY' " Two codes will be submitted to our ezatniostiort i - 61 t o for object to perfect the legislation of the forest*, l`n d Se 40 rules of military jurisdiction. I have onitted few i o notr.ll • d in this work : the bases have been take ' : in the gaol "ii i° c t• publishing writings has developed itself, ing forests. t, ocew " I should have desired, if it were possible, not to ..4",•,‘„ O f pied myself , with the press ; but in proportion Ili the leo: , •,. abuses, which demand more extensive anti mote efficacious:4sp. of repression. It was titne to put a stop to o f l c r st and to preserve the Liberty of the Press it from tittil e sl its ow n excesses. A project will be submitted to you for tainment of that object. • of Oc " Imperfections had been remarked in the or etigittl e " c : or fut Jury. I will cause to be proposed to you a project ot t• e ' .. .of its /m elioration, and to g ive it rules more conformable to th ol" of that Institution. cut i° " The punishments against the Slave Trade Were Jefii! 0i efficacy, and the a pplication of them could be e luded. 1 , 1 ,,. p or complete legislation was necessary. I have prescribed/ t" men, to propose to you the project of one. te ilia " I continue to receive from all Foreign GovernMeo 0 it lies producto _e_.n• : OW 'mance of disposition' the most friendly and the rood 0 0 c mitt' Troubles m own sentiments for the maintenance of Pell 4e * n i o sult " have recently broken out in a part of the Fe eto to I shall unite my efforts with those of my Allies, to Put a ° them, and to prevent their consequences. ignea f o c . will herm it our augmenting this year the fondsass 00 .. 01 , to public service, with a sum equal to that of which th is contribute were relieved by the last ties/wild law. _ 4 , true r elief for F oy ,vvr s "'The progressive increase of the produce of the indirevt Isiii: " Tbis augmentation will beccoue a . ick - t L i qrse It will free the Commune' from the eoppleturnte wn ' Aral -to their otoorvans, tad the iadigens vlido. wig bit #lOll